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OIL CAN AND PUMP. No. 389,255. Patented Sept. 11, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD SHORE, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

OIL CAN AND PUMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,255, dated Eaeptember 11, 1888.

Application filed March 17. 1888. Serial No. 267,501.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD Snonn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Oil Cans and Pumps, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to oil cans and pumps for domestic use; and the objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical section of an oil can and pump constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a detail inside elevation of the oil-pump removed.

Like numerals indicate like parts in both figures of the drawings.

1 represents the oil'can, which is provided with the top 2, formed thereon, the center of said top being countersunk and having formed therein a central opening, 3, ofa somewhat less diameter than the diameter of the can. The opening 3 of the top 2 is surrounded by a depending screw-threaded flange, 4, which extends down into the interior of the can. \Vithin the screw-threaded flange is seated a cylindrical overflow cup or basin, 5, the upper periphery or face of the annular wall of which is plain, as at 6, and the lower portions of which are screw-threaded, as at 7, and adapted to fit snugly in position in the screw-threads of the flange 4.

The overflow basin or receptacle 5' is centrally perforated, as at 8, and through the same there depends in and nearly to the bottom of the can the pump cylinder or barrel 9, over which is fitted a removable screwthreaded and perforated cap, 10. Air vents or perforations 11 are formed in this pump-cylinder at that point therein immediately below its entrance into the overflow-basin 5.

Within the cylinder 9 is mounted for reciprocation a piston, 12, and operating-rod 13,

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the rod extending up through the top. In the bottom of the cylinder is formed a valved opening, 14.

Extending from near the lower end of the pump-cylinder is an oil-supply tube, 15, which is provided with a sliding pipe-section, 16, which projects through the bottom of the 0verflow-basin, 5, and has mounted therein a rotatable spout, 17.

The plain portion 6 of the flange or wall of the basin 5 extends up and beyond the top 2 of the can, and over the same is adapted to snugly fit an ordinary removable cover, 18, by which all odor from the contents of the can is prevented from escaping.

To fill a vessel or lamps, the cover 18 is removed and the section 16 drawn upward the desired distance, and the spout or nozzle 17 rotated, so as to discharge the oil pumped through by means of the pumps described into the said lamps. After this is accomplished the section 16 is telescoped or slid down into the can and the spout returned to the position shown in Fig. 1, and the cover 18 replaced. All drippings from the spout will be caughtby the basin or receptacle 5 and returned to the can through small perforations formed in the bottom of the receptacle for that purpose.

Havingdescri bed my in vention,what I claim 1s The can 1, having the top 2, provided with the central opening, 3, having the screwthreaded flange 4, in combination with the overflow-basin 5, the wall of which is formed with the upper plain portion, (3, and the lower screw threaded portion, 7, the cover 18, mounted on the plain portion, and the pumpcylinder 9 and pipe sections 15, 16, and 17, connected with the basin 5, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD SHOBE.

W'itnesses:

Y. A. 1VIANN, L. M. FRAZEL. 

